DADU + Pool: The Integrated Backyard, and Why One Team Beats Three
Now that backyard homes are by-right in Nashville, a lot of homeowners want the whole dream: a backyard home and a pool and a yard that ties it together. The usual way to get there is to hire three companies. There's a better way.
The usual way: three companies, three schedules, no one in charge
Hire a builder for the DADU, a pool company for the pool, and a landscaper for the yard, and you've signed up to be the general contractor yourself. Three crews who've never worked together. Three schedules that don't line up. And when the pool crew can't get equipment past the half-built DADU, or the grading one company did gets torn up by the next, everyone points at everyone else, and you eat the delay.
A backyard isn't three projects. It's one project that three trades happen to touch.
The integrated backyard: one design, one crew, one schedule
When the same team designs and builds all of it, the backyard gets planned as a single space from day one. The home, the pool, the deck, and the landscape are drawn together, so they actually fit, the sight lines work, and nothing has to be undone to make room for the next thing.
It's also just more efficient. There's one number to call, one crew managing access and cleanup, and one schedule where each step is sequenced to set up the next instead of fighting it.
Why sequence is the whole game
On a small or sloped Nashville lot, the order you do things in can make or break the budget:
Access first. A precast plunge pool is craned in; a DADU needs equipment and deliveries in the rear. Plan both together and you keep a clear path, set the pool before the backyard home boxes it in, not after.
Grade once. Earthwork is expensive. Cutting and grading the lot a single time for the home, the pool, and the yard beats three companies each regrading the same dirt.
Trench together. Water, sewer, power, and gas can share trenching runs when one team plans the utilities for the whole backyard at once.
Protect the finishes. Pour the deck and lay the landscape after the heavy work is done, so the pretty parts aren't torn up by the crane that comes later.
What you can fold into one build
The backyard home for rental income, family, or an office; a precast plunge pool (swimmable in days, not months); a deck or patio to connect them; and the landscape, lighting, and privacy planting that make it feel like one place instead of three add-ons.
The Nashville angle
This is exactly where Wallaby is different. We build the homes and the pools, as an Authorized Plungie Partner, the precast pool is craned in and integrated into the same backyard plan as the DADU. One licensed team (in the US and Australia, building since 2001), one schedule, one point of accountability. No competitor in Nashville is selling the whole backyard as one build, and that's the part that actually saves you time and money.
Dreaming up the whole backyard?
Let's walk your lot and plan the home, the pool, and the yard as one project, one team, one number to call.
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General guidance as of June 2026, not legal or zoning advice. We confirm the rules and site conditions for your specific lot at consult.